Market Report With Jennifer — pearls

From the December 2020 Issue of #thisispearl digital magazine For 63 years, the CPAA has been championing the stunning, exotic, and often misunderstood pearl and the people behind the product. During that time, the association has implemented various initiatives, including Pearls As One (PAO) education and the International Pearl Design Competition, to better promote the pearl and appreciation for it. Now CPAA brings you one more: #thisispearl, a bimonthly digital magazine. Jennifer Heebner, executive director of CPAA and editorial director of JenniferHeebner.com #thisispearl is the CPAA’s custom hashtag developed three years ago upon my arrival at the association. Its purpose? To...

Chapel Hill, N.C. Aug 12, 2019. It was a Monet exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007 that got Travis Kukovich, owner of William Travis Jewelers in Chapel Hill, N.C., and a CPAA member, thinking differently about parasols.

Hong Kong. March 1, 2019. In 2015, CPAA member Alexander Collins, of the eponymous loose Tahitian pearl company based in the Takaroa atoll in French Polynesia, experienced a problem to which only Tahitian pearl farmers could relate: he ran out of mature oysters to graft. 

New York City, June 25, 2018. By now, many of you have noticed a beautiful Tahitian-pearl-covered publication that poly-bagged with the May issue of Instore magazine.